Strange how there were monkeys in this one...

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2002)

I find myself in a little bit or a predicament when I rate this one for you all. For many reasons, I think it best that I try and take a less judgmental approach to the movie, and look at it from a 'Pinker' state of affairs.
The virus has wiped out the whole of the planet... and there are only a few survivors left. Everything else on the planet is either a flesh eating zombie that pukes on its victims, or four horses that run free on the plains between London & Manchester. Sure... I'll believe that... I think.
Jim wakes up (careful girls... full frontal in this scene), and walks around London only to find that the world he left behind (he drove into a van) 28 days ago, no longer exists. Poor sod.
The plot kinda unfolds from there... but I must admit, the whole way through the movie I was thinking to myself... When do Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt make an appearance? It's very 12 Monkeyish in my opinion, but don't let that put you off.
28 Days Later does a few things that not many other films do. It gets you thinking (What if that happened for real), it gets you cringing (why did that man just puke on that mans face mommy) and it also gets you screaming - loudly - because when you see a deranged man peering through a plate of glass with red eyes, before pouncing through and going ape... you would be screaming in fear as well!!!
Watch this movie people, it is well worth it. I enjoyed it a lot, and so did my boyfriend. We also both quite liked the very tiny shower sequence... but I won't get into that.
I think it only fair... 9 flaps out of 10